If like attracts like: Why do opposites attract?

Your world is a grand mirror,
constantly reflecting
your state of consciousness.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Neville)

Law of attraction is always working. It is just that some confusion exists about how it works. A deeper understanding is needed to know why we’re getting what we don’t want and how to change it to get what we want.

Like attracts like according to our dominant vibrations. Another way of saying this is we attract according to our beliefs. Law of Attraction is not working according to our thoughts, wants or desires UNLESS our beliefs and dominant vibrations are in harmony with them. When we see someone attracting a particular situation, we can never know what their vibration is on the subject.

So if we have a desire, but our dominant beliefs or thoughts are of lack, then we get lack. This is an appearance of opposites but it is actually like attracting like. If we want a relationship, but our dominant belief is that we are unworthy, either we don’t get a relationship, or we get one that makes us feel unworthy. If we have a strong belief in difficulty and struggle, we may sometimes get what we want and lose it. When we want wealth and financial ease but we constantly think about how much we want it and don’t yet have it, we draw to us experiences of lack and frustration.

Our dominant vibe may not be what we think it is. Often we are too close to it to see it for the belief that it is. Our beliefs are transparent to us; we act through them as if we are looking through a dirty pane of glass. Often, we take our dominant vibes as reality and we act on these beliefs without realizing how strongly we are influenced by them. Remember: beliefs are ideas about reality, not reality itself. With awareness we can see these beliefs for what they are and not the ‘reality’ that we take for granted.

Our dominant creating mechanism is moving toward wholeness. We and I include all consciousnesses on earth – are always moving toward greater self expression and greater expression of Source through us. So whatever we vibrate is what we get more of. We get to chose whether our self expression will be joyful or limiting.

So the question always arises: Why do positive poles of a magnet repel and opposite poles attract? A magnet is a device that allows the flow of magnetic energy. That is its ‘wholeness’. Two positive poles together don’t allow this flow. Consequently they don’t create a ‘wholeness’ for the magnet. A positive and a negative allow the magnet to express it’s fullness as a ‘being’ that flows of energy. When two or more magnets are placed end to end, they create an even bigger magnet. Self expression at its greatest. (“Whenever two or more are gathered in my name…”)

Two similar energies do not create harmony or a chord. Two similar energies are just more of the same – there is no contrast that creates beauty, pattern, or energy. For balance, there has to be an up and a down. Even light only appears in relation to its lack and a vibrating wave has both an up phase and a down phase – not just an up.. A victim has a need to feel victimized. Another victim would not fulfill the need. An aggressor has a need to be aggressive toward a person with a victim consciousness. Two aggressors cancel each other out. Remember, in elementary school, as soon as someone stepped up to the bully, he’d stop being a bully and they often ended up as friends?
The mystery of ‘like attracts like’ might be better expressed as complementary energies coming together to create a ‘whole’. Consider it as polarities rather than opposites. Think of a lock and key, or a hand and glove or a hotdog and bun. So with greater wholeness as the objective, it can sometime appear that opposites attract, when actually it is all for the greater expression of the One.

Not sure this is clear to you all, but it sure is clear to me. (laughing)

I had to read your post three times to get the full meaning of it. I appreciate reading what you have to say. It’s unfortunate that more people do not understand just how powerful The Law of Attraction is. Keep up the good work.

What does science tell about the Law of Attraction? It tells that LoA doesn’t work. Do you need a proof by scientific evidence? Read this:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-van-edwards/law-of-attraction_b_2082921.htmlhttp://www.heatherkappes.com/?page_id=68
But if you are a hard die believer in LoA, affected by cognitive bias, then please refuse to believe in science. For instance refuse to believe that your personal computer was built by using science knowledge, refuse to believe in Newton gravity law, refuse to believe in scientific evidence in general. Program your brain with positive thinking like a robot. Don’t accept your feelings as they are. Don’t love yourself as you are. Throw your life experience and your own judgment into the trash. Never desire to save your emotions. Thanks for reading.
Cheers!

Law of Attraction is a theory, not a absolute law. What a person general thinks about most of the time absolutely colors their life because what we think determines our actions and results. If it were an absolute law like the law of gravity it would be absolutely evident and not something that we get vague glimpses of here and there. In the book Think and Grow Rich notice how much intelligence, planning, action, trial, and error went into the creation and operation of the businesses used as examples. Notice how many people can tell you exactly how it works, but they face the same ups and downs as any other human. The idea that lack of understanding law of attraction is why it doesn’t work is crazy. I don’t understand the law of gravity and yet it has been obvious to me my whole life. Esther Hicks has been talking about it for 30 years or more and her life is just life is just like everybody else’s. Love yourself, be positive, enjoy your life, and please stop claiming to have the answers to the universe.

What you’ve just said: “Love yourself, be positive, enjoy your life, and please stop claiming to have the answers to the universe.” is actually the Law of Attraction accompanied by other Universal Laws.

Yes Jessica The Law of Attraction is an absolute law it just isn’t instant like gravity. With gravity it happens instantly, with the law of attraction whatever energy you put out in Universe, the exact way you put it out will come back. Thoughts doesn’t attract physical things only the non physical. To attract money you must give money, to attract love you must give love, it’s impossible to attract money by thinking about it, only an opportunity but when you give money 100% freely, you literally attract money itself.

This post was most informative.. It enlightened me & gave me a wonderful perspective in a way I had not previously experienced. It seems the that many of the perils that exist in our culture can be traced back to many of these points made.. Merci Boucoup

dear Lorna first of all thank you so much for writing this awesome article.It works 100%.I have experienced it,attracted many things and got them.
i read like attracts like and understand it but still please explain magnets.the opposite attracts.why it is different from like attracts like.please explain it again.I will appreciate.

It is simple : talk all day about what you really like
:Doing ,Giving ,Receiving and being .
That alone elevate your vibration
Making you feel happy,Blissful,Grateful,lucky,Bless,loving,care,compassion
..it instantly bring back pleasures memories from the past
That make you smile in the present…
When you get to that point that it make you smile , continue .You
Are in your highest level of positive vibration
Like attract like…..means whatever you like ,that must like you back .ness
Everything you want you must pay it with joy

Beyond matter, like attract like. In other words, in the spiritual world, we are all one. The attraction does not need evidence. One only wills to make something happen and it will in no time at all.

When we talk about matter, we can talk at the atomic level as atoms are the basic units of matter. The subatomic atoms inside the nucleus give the nucleic atom a positive charge. Thus, it will attract electrons which have a negative charge.

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